Definitions
before anything else
Word origin
From Old English formest, fyrmest (“earliest, first, most prominent”), from Proto-Germanic *frumistaz, from the locative stem *fur-, *fr- + the superlative suffix *-umistaz, stem ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pr-. The suffix *-umistaz was a compound suffix, created from the rarer comparative suffix *-umô (as in Old English fruma) + the regular superlative suffix *-istaz (English -est); *-umô in turn is from Proto-Indo-European *-mHo-.
Used in a sentence
“She prankes not by hir mistresse side, she preases not to bée / The foremost of the companie, as when she erst was frée.”
“As I plunged into the reeds, my foremost pursuers emerged from the gap.”
“Juan Diego hadn’t noticed the other people in the temple, except for what appeared to be two mourners; they knelt in the foremost pew.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“At the very front”8 letters
02“Leading”8 letters
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